(July 10, 2022 at 5:45 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(July 10, 2022 at 4:57 am)Brian37 Wrote: Zebo, I just noticed you liked this post. I may have been too quick to post that. I do have A D D in all seriousness.
I am not sure now, upon further deeper review if he was the squeaky clean uniter I might have mistakenly made him out to be.
According to a recent article, Japan was divided on the issue of supporting him, or not supporting him.
It may be that that PM, like far to many white Americans still do today when they say, "Why should I have to keep apologizing for what my ancestors did to blacks, and even women and Native Americans".
This former PM is correct in that the citizens of Japan do not have to apologize for what the fascist Empire did back then. I 100% agree with that.
But it is still important, just like slavery in America, to keep that memory in the history books, without honoring it like they were heros or Gods.
This PM was advocating if I am correct, the dismantling of the separation of the military from the ruling class. That would be, if that really was what he advocated for, would be dangerous because that would lead to the very thing he said he should not have to apologize for in the first place. If you claim you were not responsible for the hyper nationalism back then, then don't be stupid and set the stage for that to happen again. That is why it is important to keep the fascist Empire in the history books. Not because Japanese are inherently evil, but just like any society in the world, as the axiom rightfully goes, "Those who fail to learn from the past, are doomed to repeat it."
That isn't trying to shame anyone, just a warning that if you don't keep the bad stuff humans are capable of in the history books of what not to do to your fellow human, you most certainly have the potential to set the stage for the same thing to happen again.
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Shinzo Abe went further than saying the citizens of Japan had no need to apologize for the systemic, institutionalized sexual enslavement of women. He spent most of his career pushing the false claim that it never happened at all.
The reason Abe wanted to erase the crimes of the Japan's fascist past is because Abe was a fascist.
Boru
Holy shit! You are indeed correct then. I made very serious error in judgment. FUCK FUCK FUCK! And I seriously am not being sarcastic. FUCK!
Damn here I am railing against fascism then inadvertently made the implication I did.
This is actually more serious to me on a personal level because my x wife is Japanese. SHIT SHIT SHIT!
